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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAs a specialty, occupational health has changed dramatically from its inception when industrial hazards predominated. It retains, however, a critical role in safeguarding workers and their health rights. As we argued in...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedPoor Quality Medicines--A Major Public Health Problem There is growing, but belated, concern that much of the developing world's supply of medicines--in particular, its supply of anti-infective drugs--is of poor...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In 2009, the promulgation of US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tobacco regulation focused attention on cigarette flavor additives. The tobacco industry had prepared for this eventuality by initiating a...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedTransparency: A Fundamental Social Obligation for Clinical Research After 60 years devoted to enhancing the methodology and ethics in clinical research, the last decade has been crucial to the scientific community in...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Trachomatous trichiasis can cause corneal damage and visual impairment. WHO recommends surgery for all cases. However, in many regions surgical provision is inadequate and patients frequently decline....
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Rotating night shift work disrupts circadian rhythms and has been associated with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and glucose dysregulation. However, its association with type 2 diabetes remains unclear....
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: There are few identified risk factors for traumatic brain injuries such as subdural hematoma (SDH). The aim of the present study was to investigate whether low cognitive performance in young adulthood is...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn Western countries, exposure to traditional occupational hazards--toxic chemicals, temperature extremes, and noise--has been minimized to the extent that they now represent a modest risk to employees' health. The...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn this week's PLoS Medicine, Seena Fazel and colleagues report elevated risks for violent crime among patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) as well as among those with epilepsy, compared to general population...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Measuring progress towards Millennium Development Goal 6, including estimates of, and time trends in, the number of malaria cases, has relied on risk maps constructed from surveys of parasite prevalence, and...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Responding to the global crisis in human resources for health (HRH) requires systems thinking if a more comprehensive approach is to be promoted. This differs substantially from the traditional emphasis on...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Sex-specific differences regarding the transmissibility and the course of infection are the rule rather than the exception in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Human papillomavirus...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Current methods of measuring the population burden of injuries rely on many assumptions and limited data available to the global burden of diseases (GBD) studies. The aim of this study was to compare the...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedOver the past decade there has been a massive scale-up of antimalarial interventions including insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), artemisinin-combination treatments (ACTs), and rapid-diagnostic tests (RDTs), and in...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In October 2008, PLoS Medicine published a provocative paper by Young, Ioannidis, and Al-Ubaydi that discussed why current publication practices may distort science [1]. Based on economical insights and...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Epilepsy and traumatic brain injury are common neurological conditions, with general population prevalence estimates around 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively. Although both illnesses are associated with various...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 8, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Trachoma causes blindness through an anatomical abnormality called trichiasis (lashes touching the eye). Trichiasis can recur after corrective surgery. We tested the hypothesis that using absorbable sutures...